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The Shock of the New

Stuart Barr conducts the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Concert Orchestra, alongside the Royal Academy, Hadley Fraser, Shaun Escoffery and Shona White. During the interval, Tim Rice meets Neil Rosser.

Friday Night Is Music Night presents 'the Shock of the New' a concert that looks at the songs and shows that shaped the course of musical theatre history. Starting with the revolutionary Showboat where music and story were integrated for the first time, and black performers appeared equally alongside white, the concert moves through seminal musicals like Oklahoma and West Side Story to Jesus Christ Superstar, The Rocky Horror Show, Les Miserables and Rent. It comes right up to date when, for the first time on the show, Friday Night introduces music from one of the leading next generation composers, Jason Robert Brown. Jason's shows include 'The Last Five Years', 'Songs For A New World' and 'Parade'. Stuart Barr (recently returned from conducting for Dame Shirley Bassey at the Oscars) conducts the sixty piece Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Concert Orchestra, together with 30 students from the Royal Academy of Music's musical theatre course and West End soloists Shona White, Hadley Fraser (Les Miserables), Shaun Escoffery (Lion King). Presented by Ken Bruce.
First broadcast on Friday 5th April 2013.

1 hour, 57 minutes

Last on

Fri 5 Jul 2013 20:00

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Music Played

  • Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Concert Orchestra CB Stuart Barr

    Showboat - Overture

  • Hadley James/RAM Musical Theatre Company/Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Concert Orchestra CB Stuart Barr

    Oklahoma

  • Sean Escoffery/Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Concert Orchestra CB Stuart Barr

    Fascinating Rhythm

  • Shona White/Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Concert Orchestra CB Stuart Barr

    Always True To You In My Fashion

  • Shona White/Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Concert Orchestra CB Stuart Barr

    A Summer In Ohio

  • The FNIMN Company / Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Concert Orchestra CB Stuart Barr

    Tonight Quintet

  • Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Concert Orchestra CB Stuart Barr

    Prologue from WSS Symphonic Dances

  • Shona White/Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Concert Orchestra CB Stuart Barr

    Just You Wait Henry Higgins

  • Hadley Fraser/Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Concert Orchestra CB Stuart Barr

    Once In A Lifetime

  • Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Concert Orchestra CB Stuart Barr

    Jesus Christ Superstar - Overture

  • Shaun Escoffery/RAM Musical Theatre Company/Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Concert Orchestra CB Stuart Barr

    Jesus Christ Superstar

  • Shaun Escoffery/Shona White/RAM Chorus/Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Concert Orchestra CB Stuart Barr

    Time Warp

  • Shaun Escoffery/Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Concert Orchestra CB Stuart Barr

    If You Could See Her (Gorilla Song)

  • Hadley Fraser/RAM Musical Theatre Company/Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Concert Orchestra CB Stuart Barr

    The Ballad of Sweeney Todd

  • Shona White/Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Concert Orchestra CB Stuart Barr

    Somewhere That's Green

  • Hadley James/RAM Musical Theatre Company/Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Concert Orchestra CB Stuart Barr

    At The End Of The Day

  • RAM Musical Theatre Company/Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Concert Orchestra CB Stuart Barr

    Seasons Of Love

  • Hadley James/RAM Musical Theatre Company/Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Concert Orchestra CB Stuart Barr

    Come Up To My Office

  • Shaun Escoffery/Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Concert Orchestra CB Stuart Barr

    That's What He Said

  • Hadley Fraser/Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Concert Orchestra CB Stuart Barr

    Moving Too Fast

  • The FNIMN Company / Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Concert Orchestra CB Stuart Barr

    The New World

Broadcasts

  • Fri 5 Apr 2013 20:00
  • Fri 5 Jul 2013 20:00